It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.

If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.

If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?

Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast.

All life-changing love is inconvenient.

The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.

To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.